thirty-twos

She carried six guns—four “long thirty-twos” and two large eleven-inch pivot guns.14 The Mohican sailed under the command of Sylvanus W.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

She carried six guns—four “long thirty-twos” and two large eleven-inch pivot guns.14 The Mohican sailed under the command of Sylvanus W.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

She carried six guns—four “long thirty-twos” and two large eleven-inch pivot guns.14 The Mohican sailed under the command of Sylvanus W.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

She carried six guns—four “long thirty-twos” and two large eleven-inch pivot guns.14 The Mohican sailed under the command of Sylvanus W.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Two shot entered the ports occupied by the thirty-twos, where several men were stationed, and yet none were hit.

The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama A. K. Browne

English commercial interests at Adalia were to be suffered to go altogether to the wall, some strong preservative must be sent thither in the shape of a stout ship, with a goodly array of long thirty-twos.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

The four six-pounders were brought away; the columbiad and the thirty-twos, being too heavy to be removed, were spiked and the carriages burned.

Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862 W. W. [Editor] Howe

To protect Red River against anything that might chance to run the batteries of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, two thirty-twos were placed in position on the south bank, thirty odd miles below Alexandria, where the high ground of Avoyelles Prairie touches the river; and for the same purpose two guns were mounted at Harrisonburg on the west bank of the

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

"Pretty little barkers, ain't they?" observed Mr Triggs, the gunner, noticing me looking at these "long thirty-twos," as they were styled, and wondering at the light and airy fashion in which the men handled them, tossing them about like shuttlecocks, so it seemed to me.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Light was so plentiful, at this factory of light, that even the Hopps 'barnlike home blazed with a dozen "thirty-twos."

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923